Despite high unemployment rates, shift-based companies are finding it increasingly difficult to staff their workforces. Local jobseekers refuse to work shifts, or at the first opportunity when they find a job in day shifts, without working on holidays, Saturdays, Sundays, they cancel their employment contracts. A similar situation has existed in the past, but we have been filling this void with workers from the former Yugoslav republics. In the case of recruitment of foreigners, especially from BIH, although a special agreement allows for the recruitment of certain deficit occupations, we believe that the selection of these occupations is too narrow.
In practice, there are problems in securing staff for less demanding jobs, which are not chosen by domestic jobseekers, as the level of social transfers received and all the benefits associated with them do not encourage active participation in employment.

Proposal : In cases where the Employment Service cannot provide us with workers for simple tasks from the existing unemployment registers, we propose that this legal possibility of employing workers with a lower level of education is also defined in the framework of the agreement with BIH.

Proposal : Jobseekers who are registered with the Employment Service and refuse to work at a level appropriate to their level of education should be deprived of the right to receive unemployment benefits.